‘German rail budget not enough as construction costs continue to rise’
Construction work on the SFS Mannheim-Stuttgart, image: DB
The German federal budget for railways that was approved by the Federal Cabinet on Friday is “not even enough to absorb the increase in construction costs for the rail infrastructure”, says the non-profit transport alliance Pro-Rail Alliance. The organisation stresses that it expects more from the newly established government, which promised to put rail before road when it took office last November.
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Just a minority now afford luxury of not caring about JIT.
(Electrification, yes, but timely and a track, simply safely sustainable in x-, y- and z dir., thus a low noise, etc., etc., now is the timely. and worth investing at.)
Safely limited, safely calculable – and low forces – safely provides for added allowed axial loads and speed – and for reducing of costly maintenance, simply for low costs.
High quality pays and for sake of all, now is the urgently requested…
Regrettably Industry, a vital part of society, now is at the mercy of taxpayers.
Luckily then, voters now, uniquely, are in a pro rail mode and
ware owners, clients have shifted strategy to On Demand, thus low risk, high quality supply chains now handsomely is rewarded, by willingly paying clients – and vice versa…
For Industry, simply just remains, to offer high quality… (Clients should not be the blamed, neither taxpayers should…)
Quality pays and at transports now more than ever!
German orginal of the coalition agreement:
“Die Investitionen in die Verkehrsinfrastruktur müssen weiter erhöht und langfristig abgesichert werden. Dabei wollen wir erheblich mehr in die Schiene als in die Straße investieren, um prioritär Projekte eines Deutschlandtaktes umzusetzen.”
It could be said this applies to the four-year period 2022-2025. If road had more in 2022 and still would get more in 2023, road investment would have to fall to zero to comply with this commitment in aggregate.